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Provincetown Pilgrim Monument

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A Day on Cape Cod

The Pilgrim Monument was founded in 1892 as the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association—Cape Cod’s oldest not-for-profit organization. Its purpose is to commemorate the Mayflower Pilgrims’ first landing in the New World in Provincetown, in November 1620. Here the Pilgrims spent 5 weeks exploring the tip of Cape Cod, before they sailed on to Plymouth. They also drew up and signed the Mayflower Compact, which established the rule of law for the new land.

The Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association built the Pilgrim Monument to honor the Pilgrims’ first landing in Provincetown. President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone in 1907. In 1910, President William Howard Taft dedicated the finished 252-foot (77 meters) tower.

© Dennis P Ebacher 2011

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Image size
3264x4928px 9.15 MB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D7000
Shutter Speed
1/250 second
Aperture
F/8.0
Focal Length
30 mm
ISO Speed
110
Date Taken
Jun 16, 2011, 6:03:21 PM
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